The Origin Of Asylum Right

The origin of asylum right

Introduction

The origin of the right of asylTemple resorts to the gods, it is outside the human power, it no longer depends on the justice of men and at this time there was already a differentiation between asylum for religious reasons, who were those who took refuge for being persecuted for their beliefs andasylum for political reasons.

Developing

In the later centuries we find a flourishing city in the center of Italy that would end up conquering the known world and extending both its laws and its culture throughout the European continent, Rome. In the initial period of his birth, an opening policy was advocated with an easily accessible asylum right, mainly motivated by the interest that existed to quickly achieve population growth and therefore of labor that allowed the expansion of thecity. Subsequently after the success of this expansion this right to asylum was restricted until practically being non -existent and did not recover validity until conversion to Christianity that in the beginning contained a great ethical burden with an opening prism of help to the needy.

In the Middle Ages we find some countries in Europe as the Italian states where some criminals were granted asylum, causing contrary reactions in society. In this period, the role of the Church and the emergence of the figure of the "Sacred Asylum" that protected the criminals who declared regrets of their crimes within the doors of churches and monasteries.

This right of the Church remained in force until the subscription of the papacy to the Lateran Treaty of 1922 for which the Pope renounced any territorial claim about his former states as well as committed to deliver to the criminals that he housed in his churches and monasteries.

conclusion

After the French Revolution of 1789 the right to political asylum was recognized, but it was in disuse due to abuse was given to this, an example of this is that many countries ended up abolishing this right. It is after the First World War when the first international agreements on asylum in the field of the displacement of populations of the countries at war emerge, the convention of October 28, 1933 on the condition of the Russian, armen and assimilable refugees whereFor the first time the right not to be returned to the country of origin is collected.

In 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Dudh) was signed in Paris, thirty articles that cemented a legal building aimed at protecting human dignity. A place that any citizen could go in search of refuge when their basic rights were threatened.